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Josef B. Brociner (1846-1918), community leader, born in Galati, Romania. He spent most of his life in Galati and was active in the fight for civil rights for Romanian Jewry during the Congress of Berlin in 1878. He was outstanding in literary polemics and sought to show that Jews in Romania should not be regarded as aliens. In 1896 Brociner was largely responsible for the plan for the reconstitution of a Romanian communal organization which had not existed since 1862. In 1901 he convened in Iasi a further conference at which the Union of Israelite Communities in Romania was founded. He was one of the first members of Hovevei Zion in Romania.